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Directed by Ralph NelsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about classical music and musicians,
Political filmsActors Charlton Heston,
Maximilian Schell,
Leslie Nielsen,
Kathryn Hays,
Anton Diffring,
Ralph NelsonRating62%
Lionel Evans (Charlton Heston) is the director of a well-respected symphony orchestra touring European concert halls around 1944 in WW2. In the midst of one concert, the city where they are playing is attacked by German troops, and when Evans and his musicians try to escape, they are captured by Nazi soldiers led by Col. Arndt (Anton Diffring). Evans and the orchestra are taken to a castle where they are to bide their time before being executed; but it turns out that Arndt's superior, Gen. Schiller (Maximilian Schell), is a big classical music fan. Schiller commands Evans and his symphony to prepare a special concert for the Nazis, but Evans realizes that the moment the concert is over, he and his musicians will be killed., 1h52
Directed by Ralph NelsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Romance,
WesternThemes Political filmsActors Candice Bergen,
Peter Strauss,
Donald Pleasence,
Dana Elcar,
Jorge Rivero,
John AndersonRating68%
A young woman, Cresta Lee (Bergen), and young U.S. private Honus Gent (Strauss) are joined together by fate when they are the only two survivors after their group is massacred by the Cheyenne. Gent is devoted to his country and duty; Lee, who has lived with the Cheyenne for two years, declares that in this conflict she sympathizes more with them. The two must now try to make it to Fort Reunion, the army base camp, where Cresta's fiance, an army officer, waits for her. As they travel through the desert with very low supplies, hiding from the Indians, they are spotted by a group of Kiowa horsemen. Under pressure from Cresta, Honus fights and seriously wounds the group's chief. Honus finds himself unable to kill the chief, and the chief's own men stab him for his defeat and leave Honus and Cresta alone., 1h58
Directed by Ralph NelsonOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political filmsActors Cary Grant,
Leslie Caron,
Trevor Howard,
Peter Forster,
Richard Lupino,
Simon ScottRating72%
While the Royal Australian Navy evacuates Salamaua in February 1942 ahead of a Japanese invasion, Commander Frank Houghton (Trevor Howard) coerces old friend, American beachcomber Walter Eckland (Cary Grant), into becoming a coast-watcher for the Allies. Houghton takes Eckland, who is uninterested in anything other than fishing and drinking, to deserted Matalava Island to watch for Japanese planes. Houghton rewards Eckland's sightings with directions to one of the whisky bottles hidden around the island, once coast-watchers on other islands confirm it. To ensure Eckland remains on duty Houghton's naval vessel "accidentally" hits his boat, leaving a large hole in its hull., 2h5
Directed by Raoul WalshOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about slavery,
Films about racism,
Political filmsActors Clark Gable,
Yvonne De Carlo,
Sidney Poitier,
Efrem Zimbalist II,
Patric Knowles,
Rex ReasonRating64%
Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is raised as the privileged white daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner. However, after he dies, a shocking secret is revealed: unbeknownst to Amantha, her mother had been one of her father's black slaves. Legally now property, she is taken by a slave trader to New Orleans to be sold. On the riverboat ride there, he makes it clear that he intends to sleep with her, but desists when she tries to hang herself; as a beautiful, cultured young woman who can pass for white, she is far too valuable to risk losing., 1h58
Directed by André de TothOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films set in Africa,
Political films,
Le désert,
Guerre du désertActors Michael Caine,
Nigel Davenport,
Nigel Green,
Harry Andrews,
Patrick Jordan,
Daniel PilonRating66%
In North Africa in World War II, Captain Douglas (Caine) is a BP employee seconded to the Royal Engineers to oversee handling incoming fuel supplies for the British 8th Army. A Popski's Private Army-style colonel (Green) is told he must have a regular officer to lead one of his units on a dangerous mission to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot., 2h18
Directed by Cy EndfieldOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Films set in Africa,
Political filmsActors Stanley Baker,
Michael Caine,
Jack Hawkins,
Ulla Jacobsson,
James Booth,
Nigel GreenRating76%
In 1879, a communiqué from Lord Chelmsford to the Secretary of State for War in London (voice-over narration by Richard Burton) details the crushing defeat of a British force at the hands of the Zulus at the Battle of Isandlwana. In the aftermath of the battle, the victorious Zulus walk amongst the scattered bodies of dead British soldiers and gather their rifles. At a mass Zulu marriage ceremony witnessed by missionary Otto Witt (Jack Hawkins) and his daughter (Ulla Jacobsson), Zulu King Cetewayo (Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi) is also informed of the great victory., 2h15
Directed by John SturgesOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
SpyThemes Spy films,
Political filmsActors Michael Caine,
Donald Sutherland,
Robert Duvall,
Jenny Agutter,
Donald Pleasence,
Anthony QuayleRating68%
The film begins with captured Second World War film footage of the rescue from Italy of Mussolini by German paratroopers., 1h51
Directed by Ken RussellOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
SpyThemes Spy films,
Films about computing,
Politique,
Political filmsActors Michael Caine,
Karl Malden,
Ed Begley,
Oskar Homolka,
Françoise Dorléac,
Donald SutherlandRating59%
Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), who has left MI5 to work as a private investigator, is told by a mechanical voice on the phone to take a package to Helsinki. The package contains six virus-laden eggs that have been stolen from the British government's research facility at Porton Down. In Helsinki, he is met by Anya (Françoise Dorléac) who takes him to meet her handler, Harry's old friend Leo Newbigen (Karl Malden). Leo is in love with Anya, but Harry knows that she is only pretending to reciprocate. Leo takes Harry to a secret room where a computer issues daily instructions to Leo and Anya. The computer speaks in the same voice as the one which summoned Harry to Helsinki., 1h49
Directed by Alfonso CuarónOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fictionThemes Pregnancy films,
Films about immigration,
Films about anarchism,
Post-apocalyptic films,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Films based on science fiction novels,
Films set in the future,
Political films,
Dystopian films,
Disaster filmsActors Clive Owen,
Julianne Moore,
Michael Caine,
Claire-Hope Ashitey,
Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Pam FerrisRating78%
In 2027, after 18 years of global human infertility, civilization is on the brink of collapse as humanity faces extinction. The United Kingdom, the only stable nation with a functioning government, is deluged by asylum seekers fleeing the chaos and war which have taken hold around the world. In response, Britain has become a militarized police state as British government forces round up and detain immigrants. Theo Faron, a former activist turned cynical bureaucrat, is kidnapped by the Fishes, a militant immigrants' rights group. They are led by Theo's estranged wife, Julian Taylor, from whom he separated after their son's death.